Just as Goodbye to Language acknowledged our inability to function without the structures and hierarchies that... come part and parcel with language, The Image Book does so with a visual lexicon of which cinema is but a part. - Reverse ShotEDIT

For the most part... the script hews to the typical dramatic contours of a marriage troubled by unemployment, unresolved anger, and alcoholism-pro forma stuff, too blandly treated to inspire much more than indifference. - AV ClubEDIT

Dhont channels the usual concerns of adolescent coming-of-age stories into an intense, at times procedural bodily focus that draws equally from the specifics of her ongoing transition as from the rigorous demands of the Royal Ballet School Antwerp. - Cinema ScopeEDIT

The director's technical bona fides, impishly tasteless humour, and predilection for shock effects are channelled into the most liberating, intensely physical filmmaking of his career. - Cinema ScopeEDIT

And yet, for every element in Jackie that's obvious and overplayed, there are stray, marginal details that manage to resonate, moments during which the pretense falls away and its amorphous stew of ideas finally coalesce. - MUBIEDIT